harness the power of 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins to smooth, heal, and moisturize your dry skin. gold bond. champion your skin. it s a second aviation related crisis in as many weeks. and obviously there are different reasons for them happening. and at the end of the day, many people are wondering about the infrastructure and the vulnerability. we think about our electrical systems on the substations on the, like about vulnerabilities. for different reasons, again, but overall, automatically, are the real concerns about how to make it safer? because they don t even have a head of the federal aviation administration right now since last march. the nominee, philip washington has been criticized experience. and also for corruption scandal of some kind. there s an investigation that he is named not personally but involved in in some way. there is no head. right, and airlines, in the head of the faa, they don t take technology seriously and the sense that the entire foundation of t
nbc news that the issues service yesterday at about three in the afternoon. they switch to a backup system then returned to a main system just before midnight. and for 45 a. m. the faa rebooted the system but it took time for the critical data to reload. nbc news has now learned that today s problems were caused by a corrected file. it was just last week that air traffic ground to a halt after a different faa computer glitch. over the holidays, southwest airlines suffered a major meltdown affecting nearly 1 million passengers. now the travel industry says that the country s aviation infrastructure is in need of an upgrade. joining us now, a true american hero, captain chesley who as you recall, safely landed a u.s. airways flight safely on the harbor, 14 years ago this weekend. i will never forget watching it live. next to my two year old son thinking i was part of a movie. but now. it was real life. and that real life hero is with us. captain, i m so glad to see you again. when anyt
we can now speak to associated press airline reporter david koenig. the sfa say the system failure was due to a damaged file. there is lots of questions to our backup system didn t actually prevent the failure faa. where did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that is what the investigation is seeking to answer because there is an ironclad rule in aviation, you are supposed to have a redundancy, not supposed to have a single point of failure arejust one to have a single point of failure are just one thing goes wrong and the whole system collapses. so the faa is under a lot of pressure to describe why they didn t have a backup system, or if they do, why didn t work. they to restart
well, it s extremely unusual and what it suggests is that there are backups but clearly there are backups but clearly the backup system either didn t work or weren t activated. so there are multiple points of failure that need to be investigated and, importantly, we need the results of those investigations to be shared with the public. find investigations to be shared with the public. investigations to be shared with the public. and how long do ou with the public. and how long do you think with the public. and how long do you think an with the public. and how long do you think an investigation | do you think an investigation of this nature might take? as my colleague gary o donoghue was reporting there, lots of questions being asked as to how something of this, of the scale, could happen because yellow absolutely. my understanding is the problem actually began on tuesday afternoon and somehow the system continue to function but then overnight tuesday wednesday the failure occurr
well, earlier i spoke to associated press airline reporter david koenig and asked what he felt had gone wrong. hejoins a smell from he joins a smell from dallas. thank you forjoining us. the faa says the system failure was due to a system failure but there are questions as to why backup systems didn t actually prevent the failure, so where did it all go wrong? that prevent the failure, so where did it all go wrong? did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that - did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that is - did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that is what | did it all go wrong? that is i exactly right. that is what the investigation is hopefully going to answer because it is just an ironclad ruling on aviation that you are supposed to have redundancy, you are not supposed to have what is cold a single window failure wedge is one thing goes wrong and the whole system collapses. the faa is under a lot of pressure to descri